SimCorp_Dimension_Product & Competitors

1. The World This Week
By Sagar Acharya
10th June, 2016

2. Headlines
• South African banking giant, Nedbank is looking to replace its legacy software setup, which
consists of a range of in-house built and third party offerings with in the end of 2016
• Finnish e-invoicing startup Zervant made a multi-million euro white label deal with ING Belgium
on June, 2016
• StatPro Group, the AIM listed provider of cloud based portfolio analysis and asset pricing services
entered into a 3 years of contract with a large Australian financial institution for a total value over
the period of A$4.5 million on June, 2016
• Expertus and Ripple announced that they launched a Pilot program for financial institutions that
can test the capabilities of Blockchain and Ripple distributed financial technology on June, 2016
• The main hedge fund of Brevan Howard Asset Management an European hedge fund management
company, lost money of 0.3% in May. Its the 3rd straight monthly decline this year
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3. Headlines
• National Australia Bank is going to take the paperwork out of bank lending with a new service that
allows eligible customers to apply up to A$50,000 in unsecured funding via an online application
process on June, 2016
• Ipreo, a fintech firm which has the headquarter in New York, and Misys signed an agreement to
integrate Debt domain and Misys Fusion Banking LoanIQ for syndicated loan arrangers and agents
on May, 2016
• AIM Software, a global leader in Enterprise Data Management (EDM) software for the financial
and securities institutions worldwide, announced the appointment of Gayatri Raman (Head of
Capital Markets of Capgemini previously) as Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer on
June 2016
• On June, 2016 OTAS Technologies (OTAS), a specialist of market analytics and trading
intelligence announced that, it will be a partner with Wall Street Horizon to provide highly accurate
and timely corporate event dates and information to its institutional investment and trading clients
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4. Competitor Key Activities
SS&C Technologies
• Effective June 2016 SS&C Technologies appointed Rainer Fuchsluger as the Managing Director
Asia f or SS&C’s Institutional and Investment Management business
• In April 2016 SS&C Technologies announced that they are appointed by Nicola Wealth
Management (NWM) to provide a range of fund administration services
BlackRock
• Coryann Stefansson joined BlackRock in Washington as a Managing Director in March 2016, she
was previously working with Federal Reserve Board and PWC
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5. Competitor Key Activities
Markit
• Markit announced that it integrated it’s Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) data into FlexTrade’s
FlexTRADER EMS platform, a multi-asset portfolio and single security trading system on June,
2016
• According to the company announcement on June, 2016
* Jerre stead will work as the Chairman of Board of Directors and
CEO of Markit
* Lance Uggla will be President and member of Board of Directors of
Markit and he will assume role of Chairman of Board of Directors
and CEO after the retirement of Jerre stead
* Samantha MacRae Foerster will work as the Senior Sales Specialist
and Director of Markit
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6. Trending
• Santander becomes the first UK bank to introduce Blockchain Technology for international
payments.More than half of asset owners and managers are thinking that Blockchain will be widely
adopted in the investment industry in the next five years, according to the survey of State Street on
June, 2016
• On beginning of June 2016, Big five Banks of Canada announced that they are going to join Apple
pay mobile payments with in a couple of months
• According to Barron’s annual ranking of the world’s most respected companies on June, 2016, J&J
jumped to No. 1 from No. 6 and Apple, the winner of last year slipped to No. 3
• On June, 2016 according to Bernard Moon, a co-founder and general partner at SparkLabs, which
invested in 13 fintech companies from United States, United Kingdom and Sweden that Fintech
will be the leader in market with in a couple of years
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